Local administration reached the site and cordoned off the area as investigations into the incident went underway.   — Reuters File Photo

MASTUNG: Two people suffered injuries in an armed attack on Nato container in the Dasht area of Mastung district near Quetta on Friday, DawnNews reported.

“Unknown armed men riding a motorbike opened fire at a Nato container carrying logistics for Isaf forces in Afghanistan on national highway,” said a Levies official.

The truck driver and cleaner sustained gunshot wounds in the attack.

The assailants later set container on fire and fled from the scene.

Local administration reached the site and cordoned off the area as investigations into the incident went underway.

The injured were shifted to district headquarter hospital for medical aid.

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